Migration to an urban, western environment may be really challenging for families, especially coming from a culture where ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ (Allport et al 2019). Members of this project team have previously conducted work to …

Emerging research suggests autism is disproportionately overrepresented in homeless populations (Churchard et al. 2018). Autistic narratives of homelessness (Stone 2019) have highlighted significant barriers to service access and engagement. A key concern relates to the unsuitability of accommodation provision in …

The notion of living well is a priority for LGBTQ+ populations when we know that LGBTQ+ people report lower life-satisfaction compared to the general population and report lower confidence and trust in health, care, and housing services (Government Equalities Office, …

People with hearing often assume that audible language is all that inter-human conversation offers. However, for over 200 years, a community of ‘visual humans’ – deaf people, or those who experience the world in a predominantly visual way and who …

This project was founded due to a series of recent controversies in the UK which signaled a gap between urgent state directives and their uneven implementation in religious communities, which revealed that language, which is intentionally non-specific, coupled with an …

Social futures are frequently presented as digitally-driven, ‘predicted inevitables’, and draw on a narrow range of experiences and priorities. This framing often excludes the voices of communities at the margins, limiting the opportunities for people to shape their own futures. …

The Research Action Coalition for Race Equality (RACE) is an initiative designed to overcome barriers to data access among race equality activists in the South West. It uses approaches that recognise, value and respond to communities’ needs, preferences, lived experiences …

What did the project involve?

“Bristol Carescapes” was a project about care futures in Bristol. Encompassing experiential, explorative and collaborative approaches to exploring and envisaging care futures, the project drew together local creators and people with lived experience of different …

As the technological capabilities of video gaming have advanced over the last few years, video games have gradually been more geared towards an individual’s experience and also moved from public space to the privacy of an individual’s home. This has …